Identifying and restricting people by ip address is, to my mind, contrary to the whole ethos.
Until you're Yahoo! and not allowed to sell certain historic memorabilia to residents of France. Or, really, any online store that wants to service the world, but has to comply with regulations in various countries.
What really bothers me about it though is that using this technology, it'll be much easier to start slapping sales tax on Internet sales. Maybe even 2 or 3 taxes - where the server is physically located, where the company operates from, and where I was sitting when I purchased the item.
As long as it's something mechanical, it's pretty easy, actually. Especially if you pick up a good manual. A dealer can get for you the same manual their mechanics use for working on your car (ask for the "shop manual" or "factory service manual") - For a Chrysler product, it runs about $90 but you can literally disassemble and reassemble the vehicle with it.
Get some help for the first couple times and from there you'll be all set. Start easy - spark plugs, for example. I started there and now I'm comping at the bit to start ripping the top of the engine apart. Only things stopping me are parts availability (the intake manifold I want is on national backorder), money, and physical resources (rules about working on cars in the apartment complex where I live). Thus far I've replaced my shocks, air intake, throttle body, spark plugs, plug wires, distributor cap & rotor, thermostat & fan (and then put the old fan back on when I trashed the new one in a mudpit), added a tonneau cover, trailer hitch, skidplates, and more to my truck. Most of which I did myself.
Once you get into electronics-related stuff, however, or the need to use a scan tool to pull codes stored in the computer to diagnose problems, you're looking at spending serious money or just taking it to a dealer.
It really, really helps to find a club, mailing list, or similar, of people who own the same car yo've got (such as the Durango Owner's Club and Dakota Mailing List). They can be immensely helpful in getting you started in doing your own maintenance, and will recommend to you better parts than a mechanic or dealer will sell you, probably for less money. They'll also give you confidence you need and sometimes even step-by-step instructions. And in the process, get you spending even more money and time on modding the vehicle.
But when law makes it unfair, as in the case of the "age discrimination is only over 40" that's wrong. Slapping a number on age discrimination is age discrmination in and of itself!
I dropped about 30 pounds last year in 3 months (gained about 15 of it back). I didn't make a world of change in my slacking exercise habits (which would have done more), but I did change my eating habits dramatically.
Remove all those easy snacks from the house. Chips, crackers, etc. Nibble on a hunk of cheese instead.
Stop drinking soda! Or, if you must, switch to diet. I know someone who switched from Dew to Diet Dew and dropped 10 pounds very quickly just from that. YMMV. But just drinking more water will help out. At worst, it'll flush stuff out of your system. And all that exercise walking to the can 8 times a day!
Sorry to say, beer is liquid calories. I severely cut back my beer intake (I'm not an alcoholic, I just enjoy a brew w/ dinner) in that time period and it helped.
Eat a salad for lunch. My building at work has a decent salad bar in the cafeteria. This cleans you out and gets you burning stored fuel (fat). In the final week of my weight loss last year (it was a contest), I ate nothing but green stuff. It sucked, but it worked. Obviously that's not a long-term diet plan.
Exercise doesn't have to be a membership at a gym. Get out and walk around the neighborhood a few nights a week. In terms of burning stored fat, that'll do better than an intense weight-training program. Lifting weights is good, but you'll just have great muscles under all that fat. Which is why just doing sit-ups doesn't improve the look of your abs. Balance cardio and weight, but if you have to choose between the two, take cardio for starters.
Also remember that with exercise, you'll be building muscle mass. Muscle is more dense than fat, so you will be getting in better shape, but if you're near your target weight, you will not see a dramatic weight loss - just transformation.
I agree with the people who said that the CPU heat won't be enough to cook the fish, nor will it be enough to sustain the heat alone.
You will need a filter between the tank and your cooling line. Otherwise you'll get fish material (extrement, food, plant matter, etc.) clogging up your CPU cooling system, reducing the efficiency or possibly blocking it altogether. Which will fry your CPU.
I set up an XP Home Edition box on 12/14 and after installation, went to Windows Update. Found a dozen (4 critical, 4 non-critical) updates waiting for me.
I don't think it's illegal to be so stupid as to release 2 of your own products, one supposedly able to read the other, that don't work together.
To be really illegal, Sony would have to claim that the PS2 works with all music CDs (or advertise in such a way as to make anyone reading believe it), and claim that a CD works with PS2 when in fact that CD doesn't.
A car stereo has at least a dozen buttons on it, with easily half of them having multiple functions. How about those 4-function knobs on it?
My car (well, truck), has about the same number of controls on it as yours has (that I can think of), but you didn't count the stereo controls. For a fairly nice stereo, you'll easily have 20 or more controls there.
The B52 is still kicking around because it just works. It's carrying massive amounts of conventional weaponry and not costing a billion dollars each just to purchase. It's relatively low maintainance, easy to maintain, and incredibly durable.
The B2, and to a lesser extent, the B1-B, is built to fight a war that we probably won't see for a long, long time - high-altitude strategic attacks. Granted, the B-52 was as well, but which one has adapted better to the role that needs to be played in the current theater? The B1 and B2 were designed to avoid taking hits with their speed (B1) and stealth (B1 and B2) - if they got hit by moderate AA fire, they'd be on the ground. The B-52 takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.
Or, you could download and publish it via your intranet. Or push it out via login scripts. End-users going to WindowsUpdate just causes more problems for administrators.
Did you consider that maybe he was testing & debugging small pieces (maybe to make sure the app logic was right?) before testing everything more thoroughly?
Ever since Bigfoot.com started tanking, they were selling email addresses to SPAMmers. 99% of my SPAM comes to that address, which used to be my primary. Now almost anything going there goes to the bitbucket. 90% of the email I send on a daily basis consists of "user unknown" bounce messages generated via my filters (love that feature in kmail).
Honestly, we don't know. All we have is the user ID, and I only know because I heard from someone else that the box was getting hit (virus control is the Security department's area, and I get slapped if I step on their toes. They had already been notified) and I checked the Event Viewer. Since it's a field user, we don't have much control over what software they do or don't have installed on their PC.
it still won't happen. Two months after NIMDA came out, a PC belonging to one of our remote users popped up and started attempting to push the thing onto any computer it could find.
This after all the usual emails after a virus and instructions on updating DAT files (click here, click there, if it says to reboot, do so, and that was it).
As much as we'd all like it to happen, non-IT people will not turn on their brains and apply logic & critical thinking to computer situations.
At least in most of the US, that is. All you have to say is "do not call this number again" and they are legally obligated to put you on a do-not-call list. If they call again within 10 years (the time limit may vary state to state), you can take legal action against them.
New York even has a website where you can submit your name, address & phone number for a semiannually-distributed list from the state of people who have opted out.
I've traveled the length of the NYS Thruway I90 portion countless times and never have I been able to use my EZ-Pass at a drive-thru. I still have to pull out my Mobil SpeedPass for gas too.
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What really bothers me about it though is that using this technology, it'll be much easier to start slapping sales tax on Internet sales. Maybe even 2 or 3 taxes - where the server is physically located, where the company operates from, and where I was sitting when I purchased the item.
or is it? I don't know what to think. At first, I thought "no one would seriously write this" but it turned into "you can't make this stuff up."
As long as it's something mechanical, it's pretty easy, actually. Especially if you pick up a good manual. A dealer can get for you the same manual their mechanics use for working on your car (ask for the "shop manual" or "factory service manual") - For a Chrysler product, it runs about $90 but you can literally disassemble and reassemble the vehicle with it.
Get some help for the first couple times and from there you'll be all set. Start easy - spark plugs, for example. I started there and now I'm comping at the bit to start ripping the top of the engine apart. Only things stopping me are parts availability (the intake manifold I want is on national backorder), money, and physical resources (rules about working on cars in the apartment complex where I live). Thus far I've replaced my shocks, air intake, throttle body, spark plugs, plug wires, distributor cap & rotor, thermostat & fan (and then put the old fan back on when I trashed the new one in a mudpit), added a tonneau cover, trailer hitch, skidplates, and more to my truck. Most of which I did myself.
Once you get into electronics-related stuff, however, or the need to use a scan tool to pull codes stored in the computer to diagnose problems, you're looking at spending serious money or just taking it to a dealer.
It really, really helps to find a club, mailing list, or similar, of people who own the same car yo've got (such as the Durango Owner's Club and Dakota Mailing List). They can be immensely helpful in getting you started in doing your own maintenance, and will recommend to you better parts than a mechanic or dealer will sell you, probably for less money. They'll also give you confidence you need and sometimes even step-by-step instructions. And in the process, get you spending even more money and time on modding the vehicle.
But when law makes it unfair, as in the case of the "age discrimination is only over 40" that's wrong. Slapping a number on age discrimination is age discrmination in and of itself!
I dropped about 30 pounds last year in 3 months (gained about 15 of it back). I didn't make a world of change in my slacking exercise habits (which would have done more), but I did change my eating habits dramatically.
Remove all those easy snacks from the house. Chips, crackers, etc. Nibble on a hunk of cheese instead.
Stop drinking soda! Or, if you must, switch to diet. I know someone who switched from Dew to Diet Dew and dropped 10 pounds very quickly just from that. YMMV. But just drinking more water will help out. At worst, it'll flush stuff out of your system. And all that exercise walking to the can 8 times a day!
Sorry to say, beer is liquid calories. I severely cut back my beer intake (I'm not an alcoholic, I just enjoy a brew w/ dinner) in that time period and it helped.
Eat a salad for lunch. My building at work has a decent salad bar in the cafeteria. This cleans you out and gets you burning stored fuel (fat). In the final week of my weight loss last year (it was a contest), I ate nothing but green stuff. It sucked, but it worked. Obviously that's not a long-term diet plan.
Exercise doesn't have to be a membership at a gym. Get out and walk around the neighborhood a few nights a week. In terms of burning stored fat, that'll do better than an intense weight-training program. Lifting weights is good, but you'll just have great muscles under all that fat. Which is why just doing sit-ups doesn't improve the look of your abs. Balance cardio and weight, but if you have to choose between the two, take cardio for starters.
Also remember that with exercise, you'll be building muscle mass. Muscle is more dense than fat, so you will be getting in better shape, but if you're near your target weight, you will not see a dramatic weight loss - just transformation.
I agree with the people who said that the CPU heat won't be enough to cook the fish, nor will it be enough to sustain the heat alone.
You will need a filter between the tank and your cooling line. Otherwise you'll get fish material (extrement, food, plant matter, etc.) clogging up your CPU cooling system, reducing the efficiency or possibly blocking it altogether. Which will fry your CPU.
You're saying that the same people who "need" the auto-updater because they're clue-deficient will know to do this? These people are sitting ducks.
I set up an XP Home Edition box on 12/14 and after installation, went to Windows Update. Found a dozen (4 critical, 4 non-critical) updates waiting for me.
No, the difference is that in Linux (for example), you must be a priviledged user (root) to do raw sockets. In XP, last I heard, any user could do it.
I don't think it's illegal to be so stupid as to release 2 of your own products, one supposedly able to read the other, that don't work together.
To be really illegal, Sony would have to claim that the PS2 works with all music CDs (or advertise in such a way as to make anyone reading believe it), and claim that a CD works with PS2 when in fact that CD doesn't.
A car stereo has at least a dozen buttons on it, with easily half of them having multiple functions. How about those 4-function knobs on it?
My car (well, truck), has about the same number of controls on it as yours has (that I can think of), but you didn't count the stereo controls. For a fairly nice stereo, you'll easily have 20 or more controls there.
Sounds like Dale Brown's Flight of the Old Dog
The B52 is still kicking around because it just works. It's carrying massive amounts of conventional weaponry and not costing a billion dollars each just to purchase. It's relatively low maintainance, easy to maintain, and incredibly durable.
The B2, and to a lesser extent, the B1-B, is built to fight a war that we probably won't see for a long, long time - high-altitude strategic attacks. Granted, the B-52 was as well, but which one has adapted better to the role that needs to be played in the current theater? The B1 and B2 were designed to avoid taking hits with their speed (B1) and stealth (B1 and B2) - if they got hit by moderate AA fire, they'd be on the ground. The B-52 takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.
Or, you could download and publish it via your intranet. Or push it out via login scripts. End-users going to WindowsUpdate just causes more problems for administrators.
Did you consider that maybe he was testing & debugging small pieces (maybe to make sure the app logic was right?) before testing everything more thoroughly?
Ever since Bigfoot.com started tanking, they were selling email addresses to SPAMmers. 99% of my SPAM comes to that address, which used to be my primary. Now almost anything going there goes to the bitbucket. 90% of the email I send on a daily basis consists of "user unknown" bounce messages generated via my filters (love that feature in kmail).
Honestly, we don't know. All we have is the user ID, and I only know because I heard from someone else that the box was getting hit (virus control is the Security department's area, and I get slapped if I step on their toes. They had already been notified) and I checked the Event Viewer. Since it's a field user, we don't have much control over what software they do or don't have installed on their PC.
And have you noticed that it doesn't work very well? SPAMmers shuffle From: addresses constantly. I've taken to blocking entire domains.
This after all the usual emails after a virus and instructions on updating DAT files (click here, click there, if it says to reboot, do so, and that was it).
As much as we'd all like it to happen, non-IT people will not turn on their brains and apply logic & critical thinking to computer situations.
At least in most of the US, that is. All you have to say is "do not call this number again" and they are legally obligated to put you on a do-not-call list. If they call again within 10 years (the time limit may vary state to state), you can take legal action against them.
New York even has a website where you can submit your name, address & phone number for a semiannually-distributed list from the state of people who have opted out.
Try that with SPAM, as things sit right now.
My EZPass works perfectly fine in the tollbooths. I have yet to see McD's post a sign saying "Use EZ-Pass here."
I've traveled the length of the NYS Thruway I90 portion countless times and never have I been able to use my EZ-Pass at a drive-thru. I still have to pull out my Mobil SpeedPass for gas too.
Those Cube cases are made of GE Lexan, the melting point of which is far higher than you could possibly generate even with a dual Athlon.
But most mortals take study breaks. You can't do everything in one marathon session.
A blank password shouldn't be allowed in the first place. Nor should a default (known) username.